Upgrading to new software versions is work, and work that doesn’t benefit your software’s users. Users care about features and bug fixes, not how up-to-date you are.
But there is only so much time you can delay upgrading, and for Python 3.6, the time to upgrade is right now. Python 3.6 is reaching its end of life as of December 2021.
Source: It’s time to stop using Python 3.6, an article by Itamar Turner-Trauring.
In this post I’ll also demo how you can automate anything in the Apple ecosystem from the comfort of GNU Emacs, the world’s most extensible editor.
Source: Integrating Emacs with Siri Shortcuts, an article by Daniils Petrovs.
A total function is a function defined for every element of its domain. This terminology is more common in computer science than in math. A lot of what we call functions in software are actually partial functions because they’re not defined everywhere.
Source: Partial functions and total functions, an article by John D. Cook.